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Before this time no doubt the posse must have reached the deserted hide-out, and learned that the birds had flown. Yes, it was even possible that they were coming along the plain trail the seven scouts had left behind them. Figuring then that the bulky Chief and his men would not exceed their own rate of progress, they could count on almost two full hours' advantage over the others.
Suddenly Sperry's face loomed before him and as instantly vanished, only to appear again as certain excuses hitherto explainable became for the first time obscure and suggestive. Then the words of Alice's song rang in his ears and a thrill of joy quivered through him. Again the hide-out repeated the question. "Wouldn't ye, Mr. Thayor?" Thayor turned his head and faced the hide-out.
"Because ye've been good to me," replied the hide-out; "that's why I come; I wanted to do ye a good turn I ain't got nothin' else to give ye." "Good to you I don't understand." "I come to thank ye, Mr. Thayor. I see ye once the day ye got the buck. Father told me your name after ye'd gone.
You didn't suspect, perhaps, but that was Bob Dinsmore, who killed Bailey." "The hide-out!" exclaimed Thayor, with a start. "Yes, he's been around here ever since we came." "Oh! I'm so sorry! Why didn't you let me see him?" "Well, we didn't think any good would come of it, sir. Hite won't let him go hungry if he can help it, and he can now. We haven't eaten half the grub we brought."
Brett suddenly appeared in the open portal above them. "Hey, Miles," he called, "is that the last of it?" "Yes," Miles called back. "You get in touch with our pal?" "Uh-huh. He's going to meet us out in space." "In space?" Miles stared up at Brett with a strange gleam in his eye. "Why not the hide-out?" "I don't know," Brett replied from above. "Let's not waste time talking now.
"You think there'll be any cause for suspicion with him on the Moon and me down here?" asked Quent. "When you land at Luna City spaceport, he'll disappear. By that time we should know how the time trials are shaping up." "O.K. Where are you going now?" "Back to the office. I've still got some things to check on before the big race. We're going to use the hide-out for that."
Then another feller says, says he, "I tell ye we've got to find him; 't won't do to let him git away there'll be hell to pay." Thayor shook his head gloomily. "What have I done, Dinsmore, that I should be hunted even like you?" he sighed. For some moments the hide-out did not speak. Finally he continued: "I had a reason for what I done," and a strange glitter came into his eyes. "See here, Mr.
"He didn't know his father had a hide-out here when they marooned me on Friday Island. His father owns several motor boats that are used for pleasure excursions, but, I suspect, he wasn't making money fast enough and fell for a scheme put up to him from the other men who are now his companions in crime.
The other Llewellen children dared not come here, for Margaret punished them if they disturbed anything belonging to her. What Nan was looking for was not in sight. She stepped inside, and raised the torch. The rotting wood had been neatly scooped out, and where the aperture grew smaller at the top a wide shelf had been made by the ingenious Margaret. Nan had never been in this hide-out before.
"And you all noticed, I reckon," remarked Chatz, "that they were making straight fo' the hide-out where Hen and that man spent the night. That shows Johnny must have figured out after we left him that it would be a good place for hiding. What do you all say about it?" "Oh! there's no question but what you're correct, old top!" Lil Artha told him in his queer way.
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